Oct 4th/17 Vancouver Dear Mother: I thought perhaps I had better write for a change. Vernon and Bert will be here today with the 68th Battery Ellen arrived Saturday and I met her with the car. Much to Ellies joy, she certainly is some child. I got a letter from Price a little while ago and am answering it. I was leaving for Winnipeg Monday but the Col. could not get another man to drive the car. The Empress of China is just coming in the harbour now. I can see her from the place where I am

BC Archives, MS-0249 Box 1 File 14 ELLISON FAMILY. Vernon. Mrs. Price Ellison, correspondence inward from her son Herbert Ellison, 1917-1918.